The Confederacy of Ethissos is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Ligua with an iron fist, and renowned for its public floggings, infamous sell-swords, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.029 billion Ethissosians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Welthoss. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 38.9%.

The all-consuming Ethissosian economy, worth 117 trillion Florens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 113,388 Florens, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 477,086 per year while the poor average 17,487, a ratio of 27.3 to 1.

Royalist is the most offensive slur in the Ethissosian language, preschools put children down for naps with milk, cookies, and a gruesome story of vengeance, political debates are all but a distant memory, and violence is always the answer in Ethissos. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ethissos's national animal is the Falcon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Ethissos is ranked 52,764^th in the world and 8^th in The waters for Highest Average Incomes, with 113,388.35 Standard Monetary Units.